Howay

I honestly think it’s laziness and risk aversion on the part of owners, you see managers like Graham Potter, Chris Wilder, and Eddie Howe from lower leagues (or unfashionable clubs in the case of Potter) come into jobs and do far better in terms of play style, and results, than the turgid old boys club of Bruce, Allardyce, Hodgson, Hughes, Pardew, etc, yet it’s rare an owner takes a ‘gamble’ so just goes with what people (pundits) see as a safe pair of hands.

Mike Dean is the VAR official .

I honestly don’t know how Richarlison doesn’t get sent off in most games tbh . He spends every fucking game diving all over the place, the kick out at Henderson absolutely should have been a red as well, he got booked against us for that challenge in CM but definitely should have picked up more cards ffs.

It’s things like that which point to officials having serious blind spots when it comes to those type of clubs. I understand they have more possession, and the opposition don’t spend as long in the Liverpool area but fucking hell man there was definitely incidents which should have resulted in penalties in a spell of games that long. It’s similar to me as when we went some absurd length of time before we were awarded a pen, there’s just no fucking way there wasn’t fouls that should have given us pens.

Aye that’s a really key point, for as well as we’ve done there’s not loads of goals in the side due to the weakness (or lack of clinical finishing) of the front line. Next season is going to be fucking brilliant isn’t it

Spot on, the whole “one that got away” shite is hilarious as well especially considering the wide positions are Englands best depth areas. I honestly think he got arrogant as fuck at a young age and just never worked to improve, his childish tempestuous nature against us points to that - Richarlison is another one guilty of this imo.

Severed their special relationship with Manchester United (of buying Man Utds dross) iirc.

Not even close to being mathematically safe ffs.

Imagine what would have to happen for us to go down at this point man. You’d need basically Everton, Burnley, and Leeds to win all of their remaining games, us to lose all of our games, and then a load of other teams to win half their games or something. We have to focus on those around us and finishing as high as possible, why hope for anything else just to speed up mathematical safety by a week or so? If Everton lose against Chelsea the most they can possibly get is 44 points I think.

Class. Put Norwich and Kidderminster on the list. They’re going to absolutely fucking despise Bruno aren’t they

Aye I’d love for Pacqueta to join. We should get Gabriel Jesus (stretch I know), and Raphinha too just end up with the Brazilian international side. I know they’re looking for a holding midfielder, which is probably why AH has heard there’s something in the Phillips link. We’ve been scouting Bissouma, and Kamara (Marseilles, out of contract in summer) as well. It honestly just feels brilliant being in a position where we hear all these players and it’s basically like I’d take any of them .

“Not even a Kidderminster fan him marra, clearly a sad mag in disguise. Bar I went to once full of Kidderminster lads, proper MLF’s too couldn’t speak any more highly of us, even had tattoos on their faces that said they hate the mags. So no way this bloke’s Kidderminster marra”

I just don’t know why it fucking matters. Us, Villa, Everton, Leeds, etc etc, none of them have won a fucking wrapper for absolutely yonks in footballing terms. Why is it even relevant to bring into the discussion like Carragher did? Do they get extra points for their top dog status? They’ve been largely crap for the 30 odd years the PL has existed. It’s honestly like trying to big Everton up over Man City in about 2010 or so . As Gemmill says enjoy the big dog trophy, see where we both are in 10 year.

I think their game today is a tough one to use, Everton had absolutely no intention of competing at all and ended with almost single figure percentage of possession.

Love the desperation to say Everton are the biggest club to go down, who fucking cares? What does it even mean amongst clubs that win fucking nowt? They can enjoy that while watching the absolute fucking dross in that league, we’ll just be off competing at the top end of the PL eh.

Lampard crying about not getting pens, it was a fucking horrendous dive by Gordon, in fact the wonky nosed cunt should have been sent off for it as it would have been his second yellow for diving

Apparently that was a Premier League record for most possession by one side . What a cracking job Lampard is doing.

Heads up Everton, it’s only Chelsea next.

Do people watch Gordon play? Or do they just make up that he’s good off the back of one game he must have done well in and just keep repeating it? The bloke is fucking wank.

Richarlison one of the most in likable footballers going. Genuinely don’t get how he got away with only a yellow there btw, how’s that less of a red than a slap?

I just don’t get the point in having him now, he’s got to have the worst composure among professional goalkeepers.

I also think we have to hope Burnley are above Everton before the final game. Eddie’s boys will batter Burnley tbh.

They got dick slapped by Burnley, I’m not sure any of their games can be called winnable tbf. Iwobi is such a crap player btw, as if they paid £30m+ for him